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Toledo, Oregon, Could Be All-American City

BY ETHAN LINDSEY

Bend, OR  April 3, 2009 8:59 a.m.

The National Civic League Thursday named Toledo, Oregon as one of 32 finalists for the All-America City Award.

Toledo is located 8 miles east of Newport, and is the state’s only inland city with a deep-water channel.  36-hundred people live there.

Bob Emmett is a Toledo city councilor.

He says the city should win because it looks just like a Norman Rockwell painting – and what’s more All-American than that?

Bob Emmett: “We have a really neat old downtown that we have renovated. We’ve put new streetlights and really, if you walk down the downtown it’s very Rockwellian. You’re now back in the 1950s or something.”

Ten cities win the award per year.

Finalists are picked for outstanding civic accomplishments.

That includes things like a revitalized downtown or a reduced crime rate.

Five other Oregon cities have been named finalists for the award in the past, but Toledo would be the first to win.

The awards ceremony will be held in July.

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Comments

April 3, 2009
6:05 p.m.
It would be terrific -- our town is all that, but economically the businesses on our true Main Street are struggling.

— Posted by rednaxela07

April 4, 2009
3:50 p.m.
The statement "Five other Oregon cities have been named finalists for the award in the past, but Toledo would be the first to win." struck me as odd, since I recall living in Grants Pass back when it won :). I just did a search and it appears that 7 Oregon cities have won this award before (two of them twice): Albany 1984-85 Cottage Grove 1968 and 2004 Eugene 1969 Grants Pass 1985-86 Milton-Freewater 1961 Portland 1979-80 Salem 1960 and 1982-83 In addition, cities that have recently been finalists include: Independence, Harrisburg, Sherwood, Beaverton, Lakeview, Fossil and Sandy. I found them on this page on the National Civic League's website: http://www.ncl.org/aac/past_winners/past_winners.html

— Posted by EvilSuggestions


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